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Copyediting for Independent Authors: Shades of Line Editing

Copyediting for Independent Authors: Shades of Line Editing

by Susannah Noel | Jun 7, 2018 | Editing Nuts & Bolts

Most of my career, I’ve been a copyeditor for large NYC publishers, an intellectually stimulating but also somewhat straightforward task. It starts with this injunction: A copyeditor must never fix or improve the author’s style. (What is style? See Dave...

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